Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986). John Adams /radio airplay/

Art Smoot has several years of data on what 10 US classical radio stations actually played. For example, the stations played works of Beethoven 15390 times, Aaron Copland 3747 times, John Adams 543 times, Schoenberg 323 times, Philip Glass 147 times, John Cage 50 times, and Steve Reich 27 times. For the specific works of Adams, no surprise about the popularity of the short pieces, although I was glad to see Shaker Loops and the Violin Concerto in the top ten: